John Maginnis is a syndicated columnist who reports about Louisiana politics. Send mail to him in care of Political Review, P.O. Box 6, Baton Rouge LA 70821. His website is LaPolitics.com.

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Now that the Republicans have a congressman to challenge Sen. Mary Landrieu in 2014, the question becomes: will they have two?

U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy of Baton Rouge gets into the Senate race on Wednesday, forsaking a safe House seat in order to take on the three-term Democrat. Cassidy has been considering running since last year, during which time U.S. Rep. John Fleming of Minden began looking at it too.

Since then, the GOP colleagues have been looking at each other as well, in a political game of dare. Now that Cassidy has made his move, the next belongs to Fleming, who says he is still weighing his ...